Planning holiday dinners for family and friends can be stressful work. This app will help you plan your meal from start to finish, let you cook like a pro, and let you enjoy time with your guests.
Food Network Kitchen
Food Network In The Kitchen is an app for all fans of The Food Network. With this app, users can search for recipes by chef or ingredient, and there are new ones added to the database all the time, so it’s important to check back often if you want to try something new.
There are tons of how-to videos, step-by-step photo instructions, an option to save your favorites to your own Recipe Box, and the app can create a grocery list for recipes you want to try cooking right now. And if you have improvements you can make to a recipe, the app lets you add notes and edit the recipe to reflect your own changes to improve it or adapt it to your dietary needs. Every aspiring chef must have this app in the kitchen.
Food Network In The Kitchen makes it easy to browse recipes based on your favorite ingredient or chef, and there are tons of recipes with more being added every day. It’s a cook’s dream come true with this app.
This app is available on iPhone, iPad, and even Apple TV. This is a free download.
Yummly Recipes & Cooking Tools
Yummly is a handy app for all your cooking needs. You can save recipes and view them in the My Yums section whenever you’re ready to cook. Add the ingredients for any recipe to your shopping list for convenience when you go to the grocery store. You can also share recipes with friends and family, get necessary nutritional information, and receive recipes that suit your tastes automatically.
When looking for that perfect dish, Yummly provides a wide selection of recipes. Save delicious Yums, add their ingredients to your shopping list, and also check out what others think of the dish with comments and star ratings.
The app is free and for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. An optional subscription will unlock additional features such as smart meal planning, exclusive recipes and more.
Skinny dessert
Skinny Desserts is a beautiful app that everyone who bakes should have on their device. Don’t you just love sweets and desserts but wish they could be a little more… healthy? Well, Skinny Desserts has you covered.
The app is packed with dozens of dessert recipes that literally take out all the bad stuff and replace it with some healthy alternatives, so you feel less guilty about eating the pre-made meal. Skinny Desserts has six different recipe categories that you can browse through, and you can quickly create a shopping list for your preferred recipe ingredients without extra effort. If you find a new favorite, you can save it for easy reference later.
While Skinny Desserts help you enjoy delicious and healthy sweets, they will ultimately reduce your sugar cravings, increase energy levels, stabilize blood sugar levels, boost your metabolism and help you lose weight while still taking care of yourself. It’s a win-win for everyone.
Wine4.me
Wine4.Me is a mobile wine discovery app that combines wine experts, patent-pending technology, and proprietary algorithms to offer users wine suggestions based on individual taste profiles, rather than crowd-sourced reviews.
You don’t have to be an expert to enjoy wine. Wine4.Me helps you explore wines with confidence by offering personalized wine ratings based on your own unique taste profile. All the wines in Wine4.Me’s extensive database are objectively analyzed one by one by a team of wine judges, who can determine the characteristics of a wine with a repetition rate of 90%, which is quite outstanding.
This data is intricately indexed by patent-pending technology and passed through the company’s proprietary algorithms that compare each wine’s profile to your taste profile to offer a personalized wine rating. Worried about finding great wine? Wine4.Me’s selection of wines is widely available at many wine shops and outlets throughout the country.
This app is free and for iPhone and iPad.
Anylist: Grocery Shopping List
AnyList lets you quickly add items with sound, create multiple lists, reorder items, use custom categories, and share with others. With reminders, sync and import capabilities, AnyList is a handy tool for your grocery shopping.
AnyList Grocery List is a shopping list app that has a great recipe function as well. Just find a recipe from any site and you can add the ingredients to your list. This app can be associated with a list in Reminders. So you just tell Siri, “Add circus beans to shopping list.” The next time you open AnyList, the item that Siri added will be added to your list.
AnyList has a simple interface which is easy to use and very functional. Even with a free account there are tons of useful features and your data stays with you as long as you create a free account.
It is a free download and is designed for iPhone and iPad. An optional subscription will unlock apps for the Apple Watch, meal planning calendar, and more.
